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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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This masterpiece by celebrated New York Times bestselling author Walter Mosley is the mysterious story of a young Black man who agrees to an unusual bargain to save the home that has belonged to his family for generations.
The man at Charles Blakey's door has a proposition almost too strange for words. The stranger offers him $50,000 in cash to spend the summer in Charles's basement, and Charles cannot even begin to guess...
The man at Charles Blakey's door has a proposition almost too strange for words. The stranger offers him $50,000 in cash to spend the summer in Charles's basement, and Charles cannot even begin to guess...
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"QBR's evolving canon is a splendid way to begin honoring black artists." -Charles Johnson, from the Foreword
"From critiques of W. E. B. Du Bois's Black Reconstruction in America to Alex Haley's Roots to Langston Hughes's The Ways of White Folks, these short, trenchant essays stimulate and challenge."-Booklist
"A celebration of black literature. . .insightful commentary."-Ebony
"A rich and surprising assortment." -American Legacy
"Delving into a...
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"For readers of Hidden Figures and Something Wonderful, Footnotes is the story of New York in the roaring twenties and the first Broadway show with an all-Black cast and creative team to achieve success-and its impact on our popular culture. Amidst a culture actively whitewashing, controlling, or trying to prevent their stories from being told, these artists changed the course of American entertainment. This groundbreaking group of performers and...
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"What is a book club but an excuse to talk to friends? The Toni Morrison Book Club brings that experience to life by telling the story of four friends who turn to Toni Morrison as they search for meaning in their lives. In this startling group memoir, the writers--black and white, gay and straight, immigrant and American born--allow Morrison's words, like music, to make them feel, confess, and discover. The result is a collection of deeply personal...
9) Wildcard
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English
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The seventh studio album by American country music artist Miranda Lambert was produced by Jay Joyce, marking the first time Lambert has worked with the producer. It features the single It All Comes Out in the Wash.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1965 march for voting rights from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, Newbery Medalist Freedman presents a riveting account of this pivotal event in the history of civil rights.
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"An incisive and vulnerable yet powerful and provocative collection of essays, Savala offers poignant reflections on living between society's most charged, politicized, and intractably polar spaces: between black and white, between rich and poor, betweenthin and fat - as a woman. The daughter of an Afro-Latinx father and a white mother, Savala's light complexion has always contrast her kinky hair and broad nose to embody what old folks used to call...
14) The lost education of Horace Tate: uncovering the hidden heroes who fought for justice in schools
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English
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"An ambitious and harrowing account of the devoted black educators who battled Southern school segregation and inequality"--
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"On paper Steve Katz¿́¿s career rivals anyone¿́¿s except the 1960s¿́¿ and ¿́¿70¿́¿s biggest stars: the Monterey Pop Festival with the legendary Blues Project, Woodstock with Blood, Sweat & Tears, and even producing rock¿́¿s most celebrated speed addict, Lou Reed. There were world tours, and his r©♭sum©♭ screams ¿́¿Hall of Fame¿́¿ ¿́¿ it won¿́¿t be long before BS&T are on that ballot. He has three Grammies (ten nominations),...
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University of Texas Press
Pub. Date
2015
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English
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Los Lobos leaped into the national spotlight in 1987, when their cover of ¿́¿La Bamba¿́¿ became a No. 1 hit. But what looked like an overnight achievement to the bands new fans was actually a way station in a long musical journey that began in East Los Angeles in 1973 and is still going strong. Across four decades, Los Lobos (Cesar Rosas, Conrad Lozano, David Hidalgo, Louie ¿¿Prez, and Steve Berlin) have ranged through virtually the entire...
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A companion book to the groundbreaking PBS and BBC documentary series celebrates the pioneers and artists of American roots music--blues, gospel, folk, Cajun, Appalachian, Hawaiian, and Native American--without which there would be no jazz, rock, country, R & B, or hip hop today.
"American Epic, a historic music project ... explores the pivotal recording journeys at the height of the Roaring Twenties, when music scouts armed with cutting-edge portable...
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Random House
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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Throughout her illustrious career in letters, Maya Angelou gifted, healed, and inspired the world with her words. Now the beauty and spirit of those words live on in this new and complete collection of poetry that reflects and honors the writer's remarkable life.